When I stopped by to say hello to Debbie Gibbens, the proprietor of Libby's at 4742 McPherson, she said she had just renewed the lease on her CWE location for an additional five years. Libby's opened almost three years ago (see first post here) in the handsome space formerly occupied for many years by Bissinger's,…
Category: Shop News
Meet designer Emily Brady Koplar
Emily Wai Ming Brady (Koplar) was interested in clothing starting at a very young age and would sketch outfits she would like to wear. She was encouraged by her parents with the gift of her first sewing machine at age 11. She wore the free-spirited clothing she made to a Kirkwood grade school, but when…
Bonsai for Beginners
Whenever I travel to San Francisco I'm tempted to come home with a bonsai from a farmer's market, where there is usually a table full of them. But traveling with the plant, to say nothing of not knowing what to do with it next, always stops me in my tracks. Attending the "Bonsai for Beginners"…